I suggest that you group your sentences in a way that makes sense for your topic. I am not giving you a minimum number for the pieces of evidence because I do not want to encourage you to do the bare minimum. Be thorough in your evidence gathering. 

While helping the class understand the context of the novel, you will also practice: 

This is NOT a research paper, and you do NOT need to analyze these quote. I am simply looking at how you embed and if you make the evidence understandable with context.

For this purpose, you don’t need to analyze this evidence, so no E in ICE. You do, however, need to cite your evidence. Use your teal In-Text MLA Citation Cheat Sheet to help you create correct in-text citations. 

 

Edit and revise your evidence. Use your ICE notes, Hayakawa’s levels of word choice cheat sheet, power verbs cheat sheet, and I in ICE and E in ICE cheat sheets. You can edit with a peer, an ASC tutor, and/or Ms. E at AT. 

Don't forget to attach your annotated bibliography with the paperclip symbol below. 

Currently, a large debate over the way “‘to obtain complete operational control’ of the U.S. border with Mexico,” (Felter et. al.) is taking up a lot of time in Congress. Donald Trump has proposed a border wall to obtain control. Others are staunchly opposed because it makes the United States seem like a closed off country (Felter et. al.).  
Many people view Hispanics as foreign or a threat merely because of a surname, the color of their skin or a few words spoken in a different language, “... if they speak Spanish, they’re perceived as being unassimilated, new to the country or uneducated” (Gamboa). They are then more likely to be targeted by the INS, or La Migra, the United States immigration programs.

Attempts to cross the border, especially during times of conflict, can result in disastrous consequences. After some conflicts, the entirety of nations can go to war.“Conflict broke out when an unidentified man attempted to cross into Mexico… at least 12 Mexicans and Americans had been killed,”(St. John)

Over the decades, more and more fences were erected in towns and eventually across the entirety of the US/Mexican Border.  “By the 1920s, fences were a fixture in most border towns… In the 1940s, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service… to erect chain-link barriers on the border,”(St. John).

The fences did not stop the attempts of illegal immigrants from trying to cross into the USA. It only increased the mortality rate. “The U.S. expansion of the fencing in the 1990s doubled-down on this strategy, leading to a dramatic increase in the number of migrants who died attempting the treacherous crossing,”(St. John)

The Mexican/American border is the defense between the USA and the world. It represents the control over immigration and the security of the country.“ ‘It [The Mexican/American border] has become a symbolic boundary between the United States and a threatening world… its enforcement has become… signal their concern for citizens' safety and security in a hostile world,’ ” (Miller).

“Wetback” is a derogatory term towards Mexicans meaning an “...illegal Mexican immigrant..,” and is meant to reference immigrants who “...[swam] across the Rio Grande...” (Korte) to reach the United States.  

Some politicians have also used the term “wetback” in political speeches saying that “‘...the term was used commonly when [they] were younger’” and others just have “‘thin skin’” (Korte).

“Gabacho” is a common Mexican slur meaning someone who is foreign to Mexico, and more specifically white.  “Gabacho” and “gringo” both have the same denotation, someone who is white, but the difference between them is that “gringo” has been turned into a “...harmless term...” by white people, while “gabacho” still “...maintains its sting” (Arellano).

“Spic’s” origin cannot be pinpointed to one place or time, but was originally used as a “...derogatory term for Mexican men…” (Vidal).  In the 1990’s, around the same time The Tortilla Curtain was written, the term began to lose its negative connotation and turned into “...a badge of honor”, due to “...a wave of Latino pride movements…” (Vidal).

Although anti-white slurs -such as the word “cracker”- are not as often brought to the spotlight, they have “roots [that] go back even further than the seventeenth century” (Demby).  King John used the word cracker in a play he wrote to mean “...an obnoxious obliviator” (Demby).

In the 1990s, around the time that The Tortilla Curtain was written, the meaning of cracker switched from poor, “Southern Homesteaders”, to “biggoted white folks” (Demby).

The word “cracker” can be traced all the way back to Celtic Immigrants who coined the term as a badge of honor, as other racial groups have done with their own racial slurs (Demby).

Although an aspect of machismo culture is to protect women, because men have more power it may create the opposite effect. When a woman claims she  has been wronged by a man,  the wrongdoing can be seen as deserved punishment used to put the woman back in her place. Machismo culture is embedded in the Mexican government, and in turn “Violence against women... [is investigated] with indifference and impunity” (Whelan).  

The homeless population has grown to “just under 59,000 people” (Purdam) within the past year.

Surprisingly, some of the pushback to stop laws that make it hard to set up affordable housing have been from homeless advocates. Many feared that it would “benefit developers but not create more affordable housing.” (Purdam).